Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The accounts of Polk, late Treasurer of Tennessee, show a deficit of #293,427.25. A dispatch from Savannah, Ga., says that five negroes were drowned while crossing the Ogeechee river. The steamer Black Watch foundered on the coast of Wales, and twenty-six persons perished The authorities of Dublin have procured iron liuts in which to protect informers. A Paris dispatok says that, Jules Ferry having declined to undertake the formation of a Cabinet, it has been decided, therefore, to revert to a combination ministry, under the Presidency of Fallieres, all the late Ministers, except Duclerq, Gen. Billot and Admiral Jaurigulberry, retaining their portfolios. Tirard will be Minister of Foreign Affairs, De Mahy Minister of Marine ad interim and Thebaudin Minister of War. An Augusta (Ga.) telegram repoxts that “a family of nine people in Laurens •county, S. C., ate a godse that had been bit.teu by a dog with hydrophobia. All were seized with convuls ons. Five died The • others are suffering horrible agonies and will hardly recover. ” Isaac H. Vincent, State Ti-easurer of Alabama, left Montgomery, sending back a statement that he was short in his accounts and was going to New York to obtain funds which he had loaned It has been learned that ho lost heavily in cotton futures, and his defalcation will probably amount to #250, COOL Thousands of colored laborers have left. South Carolina since the harvest season, to work on the turpentine farms of Georgia The Treasurer of Jackson county, Texas, is a defaulter to a large amount